Results 27,061-27,080 of 28,255 for speaker:Éamon Ó Cuív

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare and Civil Law (Liable Relatives and Child Maintenance) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Okay. I will hold the Minister to that.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare and Civil Law (Liable Relatives and Child Maintenance) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: To be clear, if I get a stamp 4 visa, through being designated a refugee or granted compassionate permission to remain or subsidiary protection and I am still in direct provision accommodation, will I still be on the €38 rate?

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare and Civil Law (Liable Relatives and Child Maintenance) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister said that for welfare purposes, Ukrainians are treated in a similar way to EU citizens. There is one difference. There is no habitual residency condition, HRC, involved.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare and Civil Law (Liable Relatives and Child Maintenance) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: That was waived completely.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare and Civil Law (Liable Relatives and Child Maintenance) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: People talk about planning but I think the extraordinary thing if we look at this is if somebody had said in early 2022 that we would accommodate 70,000 and put a roof over their head, they would be told it would take a ten-year plan. There was no time and it was largely achieved. We should be fair and recognise that. I do not have the figures in front of me so am not sure how many...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare and Civil Law (Liable Relatives and Child Maintenance) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: There was a free travel question.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare and Civil Law (Liable Relatives and Child Maintenance) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Where I live in Connemara, a huge number of them travel into Galway from places quite distant, taking Citylink and Bus Éireann buses and so on to hunt for employment and so on. If you do that five days per week and buy lunch out of €38, there are not many places that give a lunch for €6. That does not count the bus fare. The Minister rightly says it is the other...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare and Civil Law (Liable Relatives and Child Maintenance) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I thank the Minister.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare and Civil Law (Liable Relatives and Child Maintenance) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: We always have to think about things from a policy point of view, and be thinking ahead, but there is no point in working the detail until we are much closer to the date because things can change either for the better or rapidly the other way. We saw how during Covid, for example, restrictions suddenly fizzled out. I presume, however, that those who are working in the economy will not be...

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Cumas Dátheangach na nOifigeach Ardbhainistíochta sa Státseirbhís: Plé (24 Jan 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Ar cuireadh meamram oifigiúil faoina bráid ag leagan na riachtanais amach?

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Cumas Dátheangach na nOifigeach Ardbhainistíochta sa Státseirbhís: Plé (24 Jan 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Tuigim the range of skills. Is é sin pointe eile. Ar ndóigh, caithfear na cáilíochtaí ar fad a bheith ag an duine seo. Is féidir liosta mór a thabhairt dom de na réimsí scileanna ach cén fáth nach mbeadh sé riachtanach go mbeadh i measc na réimse scileanna sin cumas oibre trí Ghaeilge?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Capital Projects and Operations: Iarnród Éireann (24 Jan 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The witnesses have great patience listening to this. I missed part of it because I was in another committee, so I hope I will not be repeating questions already asked. It is good to have Irish Rail officials back in to get an update. As my colleagues have said, it is mainly a good news story. On a technical issue, is it the NTA that decides on the projects that get done or is it the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Capital Projects and Operations: Iarnród Éireann (24 Jan 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: They are not. The NTA is a totally independent agency of government with its own board. The Department of Transport is answerable to the people through the Minister who is the sole corporation there. I want to know who gets to decide in reality where the money goes. Is it the NTA or the Government?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Capital Projects and Operations: Iarnród Éireann (24 Jan 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am glad the marker is there but sometimes one gets the answer that this does not matter. Any time I ask the Minister anything he seems to refer the thing over to the NTA.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Capital Projects and Operations: Iarnród Éireann (24 Jan 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: So the NTA has the approval.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Capital Projects and Operations: Iarnród Éireann (24 Jan 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: So the NTA has the asset but the Department provides the asset.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Capital Projects and Operations: Iarnród Éireann (24 Jan 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: We have talked this afternoon about expansion zones. Does Mr. Meade have any indication of how 2023 was compared with 2022 and how that figured out spatially across country? In other words, if there was 10% growth or whatever, was that all on the east coast or was it spread across the country?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Capital Projects and Operations: Iarnród Éireann (24 Jan 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Does that include Galway and Limerick?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Capital Projects and Operations: Iarnród Éireann (24 Jan 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Based on the Iarnród Éireann timetable, a number of lines still have two services a day each way. There are a number which have four or five services each way without enormous conglomerations, although if we take Waterford to Limerick the biggest inland town, Clonmel, is on that route. There is also Carrick-on-Suir and a number of other towns. With the same population when...